Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-04-14
HATS AND soNNErs.
Gorgeous Headed and Straw Head Gear
for Spring and Summer.

Gorgeous Headed and Straw Head-GeaF
for Spring and Summer.
In order to know what the forthcom-
ing fashions are likely to be it is neces-
sary TO visit the wholesale houses, for
the retail ones have as yet scarcely got
over their winter sales. There are
many women who already are begin
ming to arrange what they shall buy
for spring and summer wear, and it is
a recognized fact that well chosen ar
ticles of dress last twice as long as those
bought in hurry.
In the first place you can scarcely do
wrong in selecting a beaded bonnet.
The choice is large. They are to be
had in every conceivable color, and in
many varieties, and there are so many
novel features in the new productions
that last years goods are out of fashion.
The most costly kind of beaded bonnet
is worked with an admixture of tambour
in silk on transparent net foundations;
but while they look light they are SO
we'll covered with the work that the
hair is not seen through. Small seed
pearls are used. with jet and glass
beads, which are bright and glistening.
and accord perfectly in color. Some of
the prettiest are combinations of cardi-
nal and coral, primrose and steel. and
two shades of heliotrope. The brims
are mostly covered with velvet and
edged with beads, sometimes sown over
like a rope, and plenty of feathers and
bows seem admissible on the front.
Other bonnets are beaded on wire,
and they show infinite variety in the
shape of brim and crown. They have
the appearance of fine bead network,
with tassels of beads hanging from each
intersection; the brims are wired, and
have often vandyked edges, and va
riety which impresses itself on the eye
and mind is bent into longitudinal
ridges from crown to brim. Corrugated
pearls in many colorings are novelty
which Will be worn to races and gay
gatherings in the summer, and these
larger beads are placed at the angles
formed by network of smaller make.
Straws are to be greatly worn in fine
Dunstables and long range of fancy
materials. The plaits in the plain kinds
are finer than in previous years, and
they are to be had in almost every
color.
Now as to shape. The new bonnets
are longer and higher from the brim
to the crown, and these crowns are
both quaint and curious, many of them
of the nature of the horseshoe, but
quite different. They rejoice in the
specific name of "church door" or ''f1at
iron,' by which it is seen that they
describe pointed arch. Some of them
are cloven down the center as though
struck with a Ratchet, while some are
so scooped at the top that, looking to-
ward the front, the crown stands up in
two points above the brim in height;
others again are divided into four quar-
tiers by straw ridge, the plaits each
going diverse ways. The sugar bag
crown has a square straight ridge at
the top. Straws are often covered with
bead tassels, and many of the brims
are bordered with beads, but, as a rule,
they are cloven in the center, and the
Olivia is the dominant idea, the point
turning upward in contradistinction to
the Marie Stuart, where the point turns
down.
The fancy straws are not to be had
in varied materials and forms of plat
ing, but in mixed coloring, brown and
the light natural tones, red and white,
blue and red, and many others. Ma
nilla is mixed with fine silk cord in the
same plat. Hemp and bast mixed
with the same material, the glossy pol
ished surface of the one enhancing the
dull tone of the other. Bast is fabric
of light string tone and dull. Chips,
plain and beaded, will be much the
fashion as the season advances, but jet
seems to head the market, and the
variety in which it is introduced is end
less.
Judging, however, from what we
have seen there is no doubt that how
ever gay this exceptional year is likely |
to be, every provision has been made |
for meeting the wants of custOmers.-